Cinder-guard.



H. S. GRIMES.

(FINDER GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED .umzs, 1911.

1,024,327. Patented Apr. 23, 1912.

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HARRY S. GRIMES, 0F PORTSMOUTH, OHIO.

CINDER-GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 25, 1911.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY S. GRIMES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Scioto and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cinder-Guards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in cinder guards, and the object is to provide a detachable guard which can be applied or removed at any time.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the invention; Fig. 2 is a top plan view; and Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view, showing the stop, or manner of holding the guard in the bracket.

A, represents the bracket, which is adapted to be attached to the body of the car, adjacent to the windows thereof. The bracket A has wings l, 1, struck therefrom, and forming the longitudinal slot 2 therebetween. The wings are bent outwardly and then horizontally toward each other, so that they lie parallel with the main body of the bracket. The guard or fender B is provided with flanges 3 and 4, which are bent from the body of the fender, one of the flanges extending in one direction and the other in the opposite direction, each flange extending preferably one-half the length of the fender, the flange 4 extending from the bottom of the fender about midway thereof, and the flange 3 extending from the top down to the flange 4, but the flange 3 extends in an opposite direction to the flange 4, both flanges Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents eaizh, by addressing the extending at right angles to of the guard or fender B.

When the guard or fender is to be inserted in the bracket, it is brought to a position whereby one end of the guard can be slipped down through the slot 2 between the wings l, and the flange 4 will engage the rear surface of one of the wings, and the flange 3 will engage the rear surface of the other wing, and in this manner the fender or guard is held in the bracket.

From the foregoing it will be seen that from two pieces of metal I am able to construct the bracket and guard by merely forming wings on one of the members and flanges upon the other, so that the flanges and wings will engage each other, and hold the fender or guard to the bracket.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a cinder-guard for car windows, the combination with a bracket comprising a back plate and inwardly-extending wings slightly removed therefrom, and presenting a centrally-located longitudinal slot between their adjacent edges, of a fender provided with oppositely-extending flanges adapted to slide into the space and slot of the bracket, the fender resting by its own weight in the bracket, and one of said members having means thereon for retaining the fender in place by gravity in the bracket.

In testimony whereof I aflEix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

HARRY S. GRIMES.

Witness-es J. D. BRIDGES, J. A. GRIMEs.

the main body Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G. 

